Loki quotes

Victor

I will be brave.

[as Zaniac; audio only] You died! Insert your coin, loser!

Loki

Wait... You're a writer?

Yes. Science fiction!

Loki

I'm doomed.

But -- and this is kinda embarrassing -- had to get a PhD to keep my day job teaching theoretical physics at CalTech.

You time travel in a place that has no time, right?

Loki

Right.

That's not possible.

Loki

I know...

So you traveling to a place that doesn't exist anymore is equally impossible, and therefore, it's something you might be able to do!

Loki

Sure. Excellent. Y'know, makes total sense. Doesn't sound like science.

No. But it does sound like fiction!

With science, it's all "what" and "how". But with fiction, it's "why".

Loki

[regarding Don's Jetskis] "A beautiful union of form and function..."

Oh, that's lovely, yeah.

Loki

What?! How did you build a TemPad so fast?

I don't know if I'd say eighteen months is fast. Well, nineteen months -- I had to take a break and move out when I lost my job and my wife left me.

Loki

I can bring you back to any point in time. It'll be like you never left. Your boys won't even know you're gone.

Yeah, but I will.

Loki

How many, if they had a choice, would have chosen to stay? Mobius always said the TVA was the only life he'd ever known and he liked it. It gave him... purpose.

Sylvie

It was never his choice to begin with, Loki. He Who Remains did that.

Loki

But Mobius should have a choice now, no? Shouldn't they all? To return to the TVA if they want?

Sylvie

No. You would be ripping people from their lives, showing them something that they cannot unsee... what kinda choice is that?

Loki

You don't care? I guess not. I guess it's all worked out just the way you want it to, and you're fine just walking away. So selfish!

Sylvie

Of course I'm selfish! I want a life! I want to live. What's wrong with wanting something, Loki?

Loki

I want my friends back. I don't wanna be alone.

Sylvie

See? We're back to selfish. I know this is hard, but your friends are back where they belong.

Loki

But without them... where do I belong?

Sylvie

We're all writing our own stories now. Go write yours.

[handing Sylvie a record] This will either kill what's ailing you, or make it a whole lot worse.

You controlled your time-slipping!

Loki

Yes. It's not about where, when or why... It's about who. I can rewrite the story.

Loki

[repeated line] Again.

Loki

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."